First achievements in ADOM

[Dervi]

First version played: 0.8.4 (it was still Ancient Dungeons of Mystery at that time!)
First PC: no idea, probably dwarf paladin because I played that a lot in the beginnings, before switching to gnome elementalist when 0.9 was released
First eveything else: no idea, it was too long ago...

[Stingray1]

Lost my job in 2002 and asked a friend to dowload a few freeware games, luckily ADOM 0.9.0 I think was one of them. Human Fighter, went straight to Terinyo, as I read the ingame manual before playing and thus knew how to enter locations. Got quest to find carpenter and headed SE, which took me to the ID. My 1st artifact was most likely the Golden Gladius from the arena. Don't remember my 1st corruption or death. My 1st win was about 3 years later, playing nothing else than ADOM with a Hurtling Healer.

[AlterAsc]

First version: 1.1.1 winbeta4
Other than that don't remember much, but i loved GE Monks when i started playing ADoM. And i got a lot of games trying to find the puppy and dying instead. Girl said north-east, i went north-west as i already knew there was a dungeon there. Never found puppy there.
I do remember my first major breakthrough though. Usually i died somewhere near lvl15, but then there was this brave gnome assassin, who got crowned with cloak of oman and wielded sword of nonnak.He killed ACW without any invisibility or confusion or the likes of it. Just exchanged hits with ACW. Though i did poison my weapon. Enter Minotaur Maze without any idea about trap pattern and managed to kill Minotaur Emperor.Switched to basic eternium sword in casino. As i was spoiling myself with improved guidebook, i heard about someone giving removing corruptions for doing their quest.I thought it was AKW. Did the quest for him, didn't help. Died of corruption on D:48 due to the fact that i dropped orbs on the rifts, not used them. Sorry for long post.

[grobblewobble]

My 1st artifact was most likely the Golden Gladius from the arena.

Of course! Now I'm pretty sure that was my first artifact too. I remember getting it for the first time and being impressed with it. I should play a gladius wielder some time.

[Arancaytar]

First version played: Can't remember if it was 1.0.0 or 0.9.9, but I started in 2001. Definitely pre-Talent system. Might have been 1.0.0 because I seem to remember accidentally teleporting out of the arena once, but I might be mixing it up with one of the other thousands of YASDs.
First PC generated: A human elementalist that starved to death. I wasn't used to how devastating hunger was in roguelikes, and was completely thrown. Finding out you could eat corpses was what made the game actually possible again, though not exactly winnable. First game actually finished (gnomish elementalist UNE, with shameless pool-scumming until I got a wish-engine started) was this weekend, a decade later. Yeah. I'm currently grooming a L11 dark elven mindcrafter to try for a legitimate victory; UNE or gate depends on whether I can get that AoLS.
First artifact: Definitely the golden gladius.
First corruption: Not entirely sure, but it might have been the horns or eyes.

[Al-Khwarizmi]

First version played: 1.0.0. I think it was around 2001, but could have been 2000 or 2002 as well.

First PC generated: An elementalist. Probably elf or gnome, I don't remember which. The first PC I got to the CoC was also an elementalist, as well as the first PC that completed the ToEF. My first win was a drakeling wizard though, and I've yet to win with an elementalist (I'm sure I could do it though).

First artifact generated: It must have been the si. I had to play many games until I was lucky enough to get an early-game item drop, I didn't know anything about crowning, I always took the carpenter quest and not the druid's, I didn't know about the Pyramid yet, and I didn't win the arena until later on. So the si it was.

First corruption attained: I don't remember, but it was probably a bad one because I was scared of corruption like the plague.

[anon123]

Of course! Now I'm pretty sure that was my first artifact too. I remember getting it for the first time and being impressed with it.

Amen to that... I also thought it was awesome the first time I got it. Extra DV, PV, speed, and it was golden!

[sqrt-1]

First artifact: a certain black tome as a surge of power in the puppy cave. Of course I read it multiple times and died shortly after.

First corruption: can't remember, but it had to do with that book I found!

That's exactly how it went for me also: Puppy cave vault -> first artifact(Black tome) -> first corruption(teleportitis). Maybe we should foud a club

First version: On of the last gammas. I actually remember that I learned about adom at new years eve 1999, so whatever was current version around then.
First PC: probably some kind of elf.

[Kurasu]

Thread? RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!

*coughcough*

First version: 1.1.1 (windows). I was a semi-latecomer to the party. It was back in... 2006-ish? I was one of the first people Gut talked to way back when. On the old rec.games.roguelike.adom.

First PC Generated: .... died very quickly, in the ID. I can't remember *exactly* what race/class combination it was, though. But this was back when I thought the ID was where I needed to go for the 'black druid' quest (you don't know *how* many times I went there...)

First Artifact Generated: The first one I can remember, unless you count the Potion Of Literacy, was BoW on a Beastfighter from a crowning. I never found a random one until *after* I was spoiled and *after* my first crowning. My luck: not so great.

First Win: A grey elf priest. Basic win. My first win was *almost* an Ultra (the Beastfighter mentioned above), but I couldn't beat the final boss. Yes. I went for an Ultra before I ever went for a basic win. I'm just that kind of player. I learned that you *can't* really be that kind of player.

First Corruption Attained: I *think* it was Teleportitis.

First Wish: Detect Item Status. .... no, really. I know this because it was *ALWAYS* the first thing I wished for if I got a wish from a pool. For a long, long time.

[Yinghei]

First version: 1.2.0!

First character: Some sort of ranger who got ambushed in the wilderness. Died by trying to use the vi-keys to move, but ended up 'h'andling the trees instead.

First artifact: well, probably the si or something, but I remember my first surge of power was generated with a master mimic guardian next to the stairs, and I died before even getting to see what it was.

First win: A drakish barbarian named Cassava Cake, not long ago!
I played Nethack since I was a little kid so I didn't have to get over the initial learning curve of how to attack enemies, enter locations etc. It just took time getting used to not using vi-keys and that _ means pray, not walk! I got my equipment cursed too many times with that...